Are complex URL hierarchy possible?

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Hi, i want to create a product review site and I’m wondering if complex URL hierarchy is possible.

I’m aware of the Ideas Nested/hierarchical tags, subtags, but my understanding is that this nested/hierarchical tags subtags don’t apply to URL. Am I wrong?

Because the same products are not available in North America and Europe and also people can speak more than one language in one specific country, I want to be able to adapt to the market with this kind of hierarchy.

I want to achieve a structure who would look like this:

Generic structure

https://www.mydomain.com/countrycode/langage/reviews/category1/best-product1.html

…

https://www.mydomain.com/countrycode/langage/reviews/category2/best-product1.html

…

https://www.mydomain.com/countrycode/langage/deals/productsdeals.html

https://www.mydomain.com/countrycode/langage/blog/blog.html

…

Canada English

https://www.mydomain.com/ca/en/reviews/category1/best-product1.html

https://www.mydomain.com/ca/en/reviews/category1/best-product2.html

…

https://www.mydomain.com/ca/en/deals/canada-deals.html

…

Canada French

https://www.mydomain.com/ca/fr/reviews/category1/best-product1.html

https://www.mydomain.com/ca/fr/reviews/category1/best-product2.html

…

https://www.mydomain.com/ca/fr/deals/canada-deals.html

…

France

https://www.mydomain.com/fr/fr/reviews/category1/best-product1.html

https://www.mydomain.com/fr/fr/reviews/category1/best-product2.html

…

https://www.mydomain.com/fr/fr/deals/france-deals.html

Is that possible or will it be possible one day?

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You can achieve this using are dynamic routing feature - you can check out the docs here:Ghost Themes - Dynamic URLs & Routing

There is also this document which is more specific to your use-case which you may find useful Tutorials

Hope this helps!

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Thank you so much, I’m really happy with what I see from Ghost so far! :slight_smile:

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In order to do the URL structure mentioned in the first post, I have created the following tags:

Internal country tags

  • #country-ca
  • #country-fr

Internal language tags

  • #language-en
  • #language-fr

Internal content category / sub-category

  • #electronics-computers
  • #electronics-audio

Content type tag

  • Reviews

Here is my route.yaml file content:

routes:
  /:
    controller: channel
    template: index
  /ca/fr/evaluations/electronique/ordinateurs/:
    controller: channel
    filter: tag:review+tag:electronics-computers+tag:#country-ca+tag:#language-fr
    template: index
  /ca/en/reviews/electronics/computers/:
    controller: channel
    filter: tag:review+tag:electronics-computers+tag:#country-ca+tag:#language-en
    template: index
  /fr/fr/evaluations/electronique/ordinateurs/:
    controller: channel
    filter: tag:review+tag:electronics-computers+tag:#country-fr+tag:#language-fr
    template: index
  /ca/fr/evaluations/electronique/audio/:
    controller: channel
    filter: tag:review+tag:electronics-audio+tag:#country-ca+tag:#language-fr
    template: index
  /ca/en/reviews/electronics/audio/:
    controller: channel
    filter: tag:review+tag:electronics-audio+tag:#country-ca+tag:#language-en
    template: index
  /fr/fr/evaluations/electronique/audio/:
    controller: channel
    filter: tag:review+tag:electronics-audio+tag:#country-fr+tag:#language-fr
    template: index

collections:
  /ca/fr/evaluations/:
    permalink: /ca/fr/evaluations/{slug}/
    filter: tag:review+tag:#country-ca+tag:#language-fr
  /ca/en/reviews/:
    permalink: /ca/en/reviews/{slug}/
    filter: tag:review+tag:#country-ca+tag:#language-en
  /fr/fr/evaluations/:
    permalink: /fr/fr/evaluations/{slug}/
    filter: tag:review+tag:#country-fr+tag:#language-fr
  /:
    permalink: /{slug}/
    template: index

taxonomies:
  tag: /tag/{slug}/
  author: /author/{slug}/

I have created 6 posts with the following tags.

Post 1

  • Title: Meilleur clavier ergonomique ca-fr
  • Tags: review + #country-ca + #language-fr + #electronics-computer

Post 2

  • Title: The Best Ergonomic Keyboard ca-en
  • Tags: review + #country-ca + #language-en + #electronics-computer

Post 3

  • Title: Meilleur clavier ergonomique fr-fr
  • Tags: review + #country-fr + #language-fr + #electronics-computer

Post 4

  • Title: La meilleure barre de son ca-fr
  • Tags: review + #country-ca + #language-fr + #electronics-audio

Post 5

  • Title: The Best Soundbar ca-en
  • Tags: review + #country-ca + #language-en + #electronics-audio

Post 6

  • Title: La meilleure barre de son fr-fr
  • Tags: review + #country-fr + #language-fr + #electronics-audio

Unfortunately, every channel URL i try show nothing. For example :

Same goes for collections url. The only URL who show something is the homepage (/).

Question 1 : Why my channels url don’t work?

Question 2 : Do you have any idea how to create a navigation based per country/language? (see apple.com - Apple (Canada) - etc.)

I just begin with Ghost and I’m not sure where i missed something.

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I removed the / collection as I read that a post can only be in one collection.

The channel URL dont show any post but they seem to “work” because they don’t give me a 404 error.

I wonder why no post show at theses URLs. Is there a limit on the number of allowed tags in the filter?

route.yaml updated

routes:
  /:
    controller: channel
    template: index
  /ca/fr/evaluations/electronique/ordinateurs/:
    controller: channel
    filter: tag:review+tag:electronics-computers+tag:#country-ca+tag:#language-fr
    template: index
  /ca/en/reviews/electronics/computers/:
    controller: channel
    filter: tag:review+tag:electronics-computers+tag:#country-ca+tag:#language-en
    template: index
  /fr/fr/evaluations/electronique/ordinateurs/:
    controller: channel
    filter: tag:review+tag:electronics-computers+tag:#country-fr+tag:#language-fr
    template: index
  /ca/fr/evaluations/electronique/audio/:
    controller: channel
    filter: tag:review+tag:electronics-audio+tag:#country-ca+tag:#language-fr
    template: index
  /ca/en/reviews/electronics/audio/:
    controller: channel
    filter: tag:review+tag:electronics-audio+tag:#country-ca+tag:#language-en
    template: index
  /fr/fr/evaluations/electronique/audio/:
    controller: channel
    filter: tag:review+tag:electronics-audio+tag:#country-fr+tag:#language-fr
    template: index

collections:
  /ca/fr/evaluations/:
    permalink: /ca/fr/evaluations/{slug}/
    filter: tag:review+tag:#country-ca+tag:#language-fr
  /ca/en/reviews/:
    permalink: /ca/en/reviews/{slug}/
    filter: tag:review+tag:#country-ca+tag:#language-en
  /fr/fr/evaluations/:
    permalink: /fr/fr/evaluations/{slug}/
    filter: tag:review+tag:#country-fr+tag:#language-fr

taxonomies:
  tag: /tag/{slug}/
  author: /author/{slug}/
6

I replaced all my internal tag with Primary tag + Regular Tag and now it works.

Can someone explain to me the limitation of using Internal tag?

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If you’re using internal tags you need to make sure you’re using the right slugs, internal tag slugs typically start with hash- so you’d have slugs like hash-country-ca rather than #country-ca which is not a valid slug name.

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Thank you for your answer, I will try it soon.

9

It work like a charm!

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